All of this information given above will hopefully help you appreciate how
exacting the task of a homeopath is in prescribing for chronic headaches and to
understand why we asked all of the questions that we did in the following
case.

R.M., age 38, came to see us in March of this year because of five years
of chronic headaches. She was tall, thin, and had long blonde hair.The
headaches had been getting progres- sively worse and were interfering with her
life as a graduate student in an intensive and taxing Tibetan studies program.
She was beginning to do research for her dissertation, involving nearly
non-stop reading, and wanted to be free of her head- aches. She described two
different types of headaches. The type l headache involved severe pain in the
temples, occiput, or behind the eyes, pressing in the temples and bursting in
the occiput or begind the eyes. They occurred once every month or two, started
in the afternoon or evening, and lasted several days. She would experience
nausea and vertigo with the headache as well as sensitivity to noise and light
and a general crankiness. They would be somewhat better by lying down in a
cool, dark place and were aggravated by heat, motion, drinking lots of water,
or doing should-stand yoga postures. The type II headache was less intense,
but occurred every two weeks. It was characterized by a dull ache across the
forehead and resulted from eyestrain and being overtired, both of which were
inevitable in her rigorous program of study.

She complained of frequent memory lapses during which whe would forget
what she was sup-posed to do or what she had read. She had recently forgotten
to administer an exam even though she had been reminded about it the previous
evening. This disturbed her considerably. She des-cribed her mind as "dull".
When asked a question, she would hear the words, but need to repeat the
question in her mind before answering. A review of symptoms revealed the
following: She had a history of eczema on the hands, a painful right-sided
otitis media several years ago, occa-sional constipation, knee and ankle pain
since she jogged regularly, and no gynecologic com- plaints.Her sexual energy
was average. She was unmarried and did not want children. She complained of
shakiness if she went for a long time without eating, was extremely sensitive
to cigarette smoke, and tended to be chilly with cold extremities. Mentally and
emotionally she had always been shy, sometimes painfully so, was reserved, a
loner, and not overly emotional or sen-timental. She could be perceived by
others as being unfeeling and having a cold heart. She was patient with others,
but not herself, and became upset if others implied she was stupid. She would
take time to evaluate a situation to decided whether or not it was worth
speaking up and it would take a lot to make her angry. She expressed that her
self-confidence wasn't great and had fear of not succeeding. She had had a
number of long-term relationships with men, none of which were totally
satisfying and she wondered whether she was cut out for long-lasting
relationships. When asked about food desires, she loved hard, cold ice cream
and carrots, and hated slimy foods. She had a stronger than average desire for
cold drinks. When questioned, she admitted to suffering from chronic
tonsillitis as a child and even now had occasional right submandibular
swelling.

We use the homeopathic computer program "MacRepertory" to help us analyze
our cases.

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